Primary Recipient

UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI

Amount

$747,102.00

Award Date

7/17/2009

Administering Agency

Health and Human Services, Department of / National Institutes of Health

CDFA Number

93.701

CDFA Program Title

Trans-NIH Recovery Act Research Support

Description

Two million people are visually impaired by glaucoma in the US. Glaucoma causes progressive dysfunction and death of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) resulting in blindness. Our long-term goal is to prevent RGC death in the early stages of glaucoma and spare